We have now learned that the XFL will resume operations in February — just a week after the NFL’s Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona.
Previously owned by WWE executive Vince McMahon, the alternative pro football league picked a bad time to begin its second iteration. As the COVID-19 pandemic shook the country, the league suspended operations after just five games of its 2020 season had been played. The original XFL played one season in 2001.
Purchased out of bankruptcy by Dany Garcia, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and RedBird Capital, the league has now announced that it will field eight league-owned teams in its 2023 season — three of them located in Texas.